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Mary. Ma', of all the countries you have mentioned', I think Asia the most delightful`; it is so warm', and produces so many good things'; though I am not much displeased with Spain. Jane. Now I like France' and Italy; but above all', Switzerland; she has such rich vallies', rugged mountains', and simple, honest people'.

Ma. I can hardly help smiling', my daughters', to hear you express your admiration of countries which you have never seen'.

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Jane. But', Ma', we have often read of them in our little story books', and you have explained to us the, useful things which they produce'.

Ma. But then you did not read,' probably,' of the violent storms, the dreadful earth-quakes,' and the burning volcanoes to which those countries are liable. Nor have you been told of the vast avalanches, or masses of earth and snow, which sometimes fall from the mountains bordering on your beautiful Switzerland, and bury at once,' a whole smiling village,' in one common grave.`

Jane. Oh, Ma!' that must be dreadful indeed! These are subjects to which my mind did not once revert while you were describing their delightful productions.

Ma. The terrific rivers of burning lava,' or glowing, liquid fire, which roll from the craters of Etna and Vesuvius, spread over the plains,' and turn some of the loveliest portions of the country into barren deserts.` Whole cities,' with their thousands of busy people,' have been buried alive, deep below the molten tide thrown from the bowels of these noted mountains.

Mary. Oh'! how terrible must such a calamity be! I would not live there for the world!

Ma. None can describe the horror. At the same time, the whole country is shaken with tremendous earthquakes', and the solid ground is rocked like a cradle'. Whole islands and vast cities' are sunk in the depths of the sca. When this calamity has passed away', the scorching wind from the deserts of Africa', (the Sirocco,') rushes along the blooming fields', and drinks dry the crystal spring, the purling brook', and the juice of every bud and plant'.

Jane. Well, Ma', I will give up my partiality for those countries', and content myself with my own`.

ARITHMETIC.-LESSON 23.

Practical Exercises in Single Proportion.

1. 81 cents will purchase 2 bushels of corn; what will $315, buy? Ans. 777bu 3p. 2. $40.96 purchased 72yds of broadcloth, what will 9yds cost? Ans. $5.12. 3. 50 cents will buy 7lbs of sugar, how many pounds will $6.38 buy? Ans. 89lbs. 4. $9.76 will buy 12yds of cloth, how many yards will $150 Ans. 192yds.

buy?

5. £18 will buy 16 lbs of loaf sugar, what will 112lbs

cost?

6. £9

Ans. £9- 16.

16 will buy 112lbs loaf sugar, what will 28s buy? Ans. 16lbs.

7. A, spends 7d a day for rum; what is that for 365 days or one year?

As 1: 365 :: 7 : 2555

Ans. £10 12

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OBS. 1. In this question, the first term is one day; and as one will not divide, the operation is resolved in simple multiplication; for, 365X7-2555d-12 and 20-£10 12 Answer.

11, 8. A spends £10 - 12 11, for rum, in 365 days; what is that for one day?

11 25557

As 365: 1 :: 10 12 Ans. 7d. OBS. 2. Here the 2d term is one, and the operation resolves itself into simple division; for 2555÷365-7, the answer. Hence when the 1st term is one, the answer is obtained by multiplying, and when the 2d term is one, the answer is obtained by division.

9. A's. yearly income is $300, what is that for one day? As 365: 1 :: 300: 81. Answer 81 cents. 10. B sold his corn for 59cts a bushel, what does he get for 24 bushels? As 1 24: 59: 14.16. Ans. $14.16 11. C bought cheese at 72 cts a pound,

for 156lbs.

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GRAMMAR. LESSON 24.

what did he give Ans. $11.70.

Imperative Mood.-Present Time.

2d per. sing. No. love apples, or do you love apples, or love

you apples.

2 do plu. No. love apples, or love you apples, or do

you love apples.
Infinitive Mood.

Present time, To love apples,

Perfect ime, To have loved apples.

Present,

Participles.

loving apples,

Past, loved apples,

Compound, having loved apples.

SPELLING. LESSON 25.

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stock-ing stoking subt-le sut'tl

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Ma. My children', I will describe a country to you', with which, I fancy, you will be pleased. A country wholly free from volcanic eruptions, and poison winds', and yet possessed of a thousand advantages far superior to those which you refer to the sunny regions of Asia).

Mary. Pray do tell us', Ma', where that country is; we shall be greatly pleased to hear.

Ma. It is that country, which', but a few years since', (comparatively) was a dense, dark, and howling wilderness`; the abode of the panther', the bear', and the prowling wolf, and of wild and savage man', more brutal and relentless than the fasting tiger'.

Mary. Oh, Ma! what a country! I am sure I shall not like it.

Ma. I was barely observing what it once was', for the purpose of enabling you to understand more fully what it now is`. The wilderness of which I spake', has become a fruitful field, and blossoms like the valley of Sharon'. The howling beasts of prey', have gone to their dens in far distant forests, and

the untamed savage, to his hunting and fishing, beyond the blue mountains of the west.

Mary. Now', Ma', my fears are all hushed'; pray go on'. Ma. This country is adorned with every beauty of woody copse', of rising hill', and spreading dale';--of lakes that expand like seas`, of broad and majestic rivers', which', rushing amid the broken fragments of the mountain cleft', or rippling through the enamelled valley', now fringed with waving wood', and now reflecting to the sky the ripening wheat field and the growing corn', wind safe their way to ocean's oozy bed'. Jane. That must be a lovely country, indeed! I should like to sketch a view of it on paper'; I think I have the whole of it in my eye`.

Mary. You seem to refer every thing', sister', to your favourite study; I wish I could sketch landscape too'.

SINGLE PROPORTION.-LESSON 27.

Practical Exercises.

12. If 103galls. of molasses cost £17 4

1 gallon cost?

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13. A. failed in trade, and owed $29475, his effects sold for $21894.03, what will he pay on the dollar?

Ans. $0.74.2.

14. B. compounded with his creditors for £0 - 12 - 6 on the L. what will L1000 draw? Ans. L625.

15. C's. income is $890.15 a year, how much may he spend

each day, and lay by $120?

Ans. 2.11.

16. D's. yearly income was $1333, and he spent $2.14, each day, what did he lay by? Ans. $551.90.

17. E. bought a farm of 225 acres, at $43.75 an acre; what was the whole cost? Ans. $9843.75.

18. D. is worth $1786.67, and is taxed 12 cents on a dollar, to what does the tax amount? Ans. $214.40. 19. F. bought 17cwt 3qrs 17lbs of tobacco for $320.80, what did he pay for an ounce? Ans. 1 cent.

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RULE 20. Intransitive and neuter verbs, may have the same case of nouns and pronouns, both before them and after them, provided the nouns and pronouns imply the same thing, or stand in apposition. As, Mary is the girl who studies hard. In this example, the nouns Mary and girl, imply the same Thing. The first, is the nominative case to the neuter verb, is;

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